Did China foster or resist the early wave of globalisation? How should we situate China within the global context prior to the First Opium War? Compared with the Dutch and the British, in what ways ...

Imports of tea, porcelain and silk from China had created a large trade imbalance . One product that the British could access in large quantities was opium grown in territories under their ...

The relatively unknown story of wartime Japan’s ties with the opium trade in China is now in the public domain, courtesy of a manga series that has already sold more than 1.8 million copies in ...

PRESENTER:'They then bought up Indian opium and sold it to China, 'buying tea in return. PRESENTER:'And so they created a trading triangle. 'The profits were high, but so was the risk. PRESENTER ...

from China . . . ” Only the previous day, I had seen Fortune’s name in Lucy Inglis’s fascinating book Milk of Paradise: A History of Opium. I checked back and there was just this one ...

The medicinal value of the plant - for treating coughs and conditions involving the digestive system - was recognised in ...

Imports of tea, porcelain and silk from China had created a large trade imbalance. One product that the British could access in large quantities was opium grown in territories under their colonial ...